EE Live! is the premier technical conference for electronic engineering professionals, hosting numerous educational sessions, boot camps, special events, and more. Along with ESC, the conference will run March 31-April 3 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. You can preview the dozens of tutorials, postmortems, and other presentations planned for ESC -- split across 10 distinct tracks -- through this Schedule Builder.

Green is a senior analog applications engineer in precision analog linear applications at TI's Tucson Design Center. He has more than 32 years of experience in brushless motor control, aircraft jet engine control, missile systems, power op-amps, data acquisition systems, CCD cameras, power automotive audio, and analog/mixed signal semiconductors. His analysis and research into op-amp open loop output impedance (Zo) and op-amp stability have earned him the nickname "Wizard of Zo" among his colleagues.

Green's Op Amp Stone Soup is a collection of many op-amp circuits, from customers and colleagues, that do not work correctly. The dessert is that the answers on how to make them work correctly will also be presented. With the advent of the low-cost microcontroller and higher levels of integration (muxes and ADCs on board the microcontroller), the speculation was that the need for op-amps would decrease, but the contrary has proven true.

With low-cost computing power, more information from the real world is needed for sensing and control. The real world is still analog, and op-amps are needed to get low-level, real world signals into an ADC accurately. Most colleges are not even teaching how to use an op-amp as a board/system level building block. Many of today's designs are single supply, so Green's presentation will concentrate mostly on single-supply applications. You will want to attend this session and expedite your time to market when using op-amps and avoid the common and subtle mistakes made when designing with op amps.